Fence-stay



(No Model.)

I. K. HOLLINGER.

FENCE STAY.

N0. 473,001. Patented Apr. 19, 1892.

' -UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

ISAAO K. HOLLINGER, OF \VEAVERS STATION, OHIO.

FENCE-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,001, dated April 19, 1892. Application filed October 21, 1891. Serial 110,409,406. ,(ll'o model.)

A a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Weavers Station, in thecounty of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Stays; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to stays for wire fences, and, in combination with such stays, to

devices for securing the same to the runners I of a wire fence.

The invention is designed as an improvement upon the devices shown and described in the Letters Patent granted to me December 1, 1891, No. 464,435, in which stays are shown as composed of two wires looped and linked together, with their ends terminating in eyes through which the runners pass, and loopwires are employed which straddle the stays and simply terminate in an eye to also receive the runners. This construction has some oh- 3 ectionable featuressuch, for instance,as not permitting an unlimited and universal movement to the runners without strain-and the straddle-wires,not being wrapped or coiled, after use become very-loose and slide.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a wire fence, showing my improvements applied. Fig. 2is a similar view in which the links of the stay are shown as receiving the runners. Fig. 3 is also aperspective view of a portion of a fence, showing the stay linked into the straddlewires, such as used in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a portion of one of the runners, showing a modification of straddlewires, with the. stay-chain broken away. Fig.

' 5 is a perspective detail view of a modification, and Fig. 6 is a similar View of another modification.

Referring by letter to said drawings, A indicates the runners of a wire fence, which maybe of any ordinary or approved construction, and any suitable number of runners might be employed.

B indicates the stay, which is composed of a chain. The preferred form of chain is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, in which the links a are composed of a rod of wire having an eye I) turned on opposite ends. I have illustrated this construction of chain as formed from two links; but it is obvious that more might be employed, and the outer end of each outer link is designed to receive the runner through its eye I), as shown.

0 indicates a wire, which is designed to prevent the stays from sliding on the runners. These wires, which I shall denominate straddles, are looped so as to straddle the outer link or eye thereof, and is tightly wrapped on opposite sides of said eye or link, as shown at (Z. By this construction it will be seen that the runners may be subjected to a lateral or vertical strain without impairing the usefulness of the stays, which will always return the runners to their normal relative positions.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings I have illustrated the stays with asplit link at the points where they receive the runners, as in some cases it may be desirable to adopt this construction instead of the long links with the ends turned into eyes, as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings I have illustrated the stay-chain as receiving the straddle-wires instead of the runners, in which construction the links may be placed in position before the last end of the straddle-wire has been tightly wrapped upon the runners, while in Fig. 4 of the drawings I have shown a similar connection between the straddle-wire and stay, but have shown the ends of a straddlewire wrapped upon the runners in opposite directions. 4

In Fig. 5 of the drawings I have shown the stay-chain embraced by the straddle-wires, and after embracing said stay-chains the wires are twisted at a point e and then turned tightly over the runners as shown at f, after which the free ends are firmly twisted together'as shown at g, while in Fig. 6 of the drawings the connection between the straddles or runner-wires and the chain is made by passing said wire through the links of the chain instead of around the links, and twisted in a manner corresponding to that shown in Fig. 5.

It will be observed that in every instance the stays are connected in a flexible or hinged manner with the runner, so as to play freely therewith, while the straddle-wires are wrapped firmly at opposite ends to said runners, so as to prevent any extreme lateral movement of the stay on the runners.

I am aware that it is not new to provide wire'fences with stays composed of two hinged parts so as to bring the hinge-joint on the runners, and that it is also old to have a hingejoint between the runners-on the stay, and therefore do not claim such devices broadly,

' but What I claim, and desire to secure by Lettors Patent, is

1. The combination, with the runners of a wire fence, of a stay composed of a chain linked loosely to said runners and the wires looped on the runners at the points where the chains connect and having their opposite ends tightly wrapped to the runners at opposite sides of the chain, whereby any strain in either direction upon the runners Will not 

